It's a trigger fish, also called a cannonball fish, with a dark blue exterior with yellow spots on its head, and it looks different from other fish, its eyes don't grow on the fish's head, it grows on the raised bones on its back, and it looks a bit like a human when you get closer. Especially a mouthful of big teeth, when it comes out, it can scare people into goosebumps.

Haizhu swung her legs around the wreck, her hand reached into the net pocket and took out the makeup box, the fish behind her was in hot pursuit, she hid in the cabin in a panic, and the cannonball fish followed with her eyes and teeth in a hurry.

A box smashed over, and there was a lot of resistance in the water, and as soon as the box was thrown, the fish changed direction.

Haizhu took out two rusty silver hairpins from the makeup box and held them in his hands, holding the iron rake in his right hand, and rushed out of the cabin with a short body.

The cannonball fish couldn't dodge and hit the plank, and a sharp tooth slammed into the wooden box, which instantly lost a corner.

Haizhu hid outside the door, and when the head of the fish was exposed, he swung his iron rake, and the waves of the water made it narrowly dodge a rake, and in a fit of rage, the fins hidden in its back stood up, and it pounced on Haizhu faster.

The old turtle swam over, it sank down to block the impact, bent its neck and bit at the cannonball fish, the other party did not dodge or dodge, cracked a mouthful of teeth and bit the turtle's neck fiercely.

The old turtle was bleeding from its neck, and a piece of the patterned skin was missing, revealing bright red tender flesh.

Haizhu took this opportunity to grab its tail, and when the cannonball fish bow bit it, two blackened silver hairpins pierced its abdomen.

Fish blood slipped into the sea water bit by bit from the hairpin tail, a pair of bulging fish eyes on the back changed color, Haizhu let go of the fish tail that was still trembling, the palm of the hand was broken by the fish tail, and it hurt like pins and needles in the seawater.

The half-arm-long sea fish fell to the bottom of the sea and smashed a handful of turbid sediment, Haizhu looked at the old turtle's injury, but fortunately the thick skin did not bite off the meat. She picked up the fish, plucked the silver hairpin, smashed the head with an iron rake and pried off the teeth, and a fish had eight teeth, the largest of which was a knuckle long, thicker than a man's big teeth.

The fish teeth were cleaned and thrown into the makeup box, Haizhu planned to take them back to Dongzhu and Fengping to see, thinking that Han Ji and Shen Sui had never seen each other, she regretted prying the fish teeth off a little, and she should bring the fish back to scare them.

The bottom of the sea was calm again, the seaweed covering the boat shook its blades like the wind blowing, and the old turtle hit the pearl and paddled its fins towards the stern of the boat.

Haizhu picked up the iron rake and followed, swimming all the way to carefully check the movement around him, the tide under the sea changed direction, and the one-sided seaweed was removed, revealing a piece of blue-yellow coral, and the sand here was also a dull white, and the previous cannonball fish should have made its home here.

Cannonball fish eat coral, and what comes out is white particles like gravel.

The movement of Haizhu smashing the ship alarmed it and aroused its violent temper.

The old turtle swam around the smashed sawdust pile again, and Haizhu first used an iron rake to knock around the coral rocks and reef piles, and the blue-brown insects fled in a hurry, and there was no thing to attack people from behind.

She picked up the rock and continued to smash the plank, revealing the black fishing net first, followed by a tortoise shell entwined in the fishing net. Haizhu brushed aside the sawdust that floated over and took a closer look, and the turtle was dead, leaving only the shell and bones behind.

She glanced at the old turtle and poked it with an iron rake, and the bones immediately broke into several knots, and the remaining turtle skin fluttered down in the form of crumbs.

"What are you bringing me here for? It's dead. Haizhu muttered, and she hooked the turtle shell with an iron rake, revealing a pile of white bones.

This turtle shell is bigger than her face, Haizhu washed it and put it in the net pocket, I don't know what the old turtle led her to do, the only thing that can be used is this turtle shell, and it is not bad to take it back to dry it as a saucer.

The place where the fishing nets are loaded is the lower warehouse, which also contains grain, and the rice grains are broken as soon as they are twisted, and only the stalks of skin are left in the flattened basket, which should have been filled with fruit before. Haizhu noticed a black piece of wood leaning out from under the plank, and touched it to be a long knife, she continued to smash the plank, and there were thirteen long knives piled up in the corner.

Long knives, iron pots, kitchen knives, and iron-cast masts, Haizhu pondered that these things could be sold for one or twenty taels when they were fished ashore.

As soon as she said it, she picked up the scissors and went to cut the seaweed, which is the toughest rope under the water, and tied the long knife into a string, and the sea bead knocked the old turtle and swam with it to the surface.

When they came down, most of the shellfish that had fallen in the mud and sand had already been eaten.

Haizhu carried an empty fish bag to look for it in the direction where the boat fell, and the hairy crabs and shells hidden in the sand bottom were picked up and put in the net pocket, and the lobsters that lived in the board of the boat were dragged out, and the conch with pink snail meat was thrown away.

The net pocket was full, Haizhu pried up the mast from the bottom of the sand, the three-person tall and thick mast was heavy, she couldn't lift her head and tail, tried and tried, but gave up.

Haizhu went to sweep in the cabin again, but the thief did not go empty, and swam to the sea with both hands occupied.

The old turtle resting on the reef slowly followed.

The sky is colored orange by the sunset, and when you look up from underwater, the red clouds are much softer. Haizhu got out of the water, dragged the rope and climbed onto the boat, the first thing was to pour the shrimp, crab and snail shellfish in the net pocket into the water tank, and the octopus picked it up and threw it into the bucket. Just as he was about to twist the water on his hair, he turned his head and saw a boat, the white sail embroidered with red fish patterns.

In an instant, the hairs on Haizhu's back neck stood up, and she turned her head to judge the position of her boat, there was no shortage of things in the cabin, and the fishing boat in the distance should be the first to come back.

No fishing boat had passed her until then.

Her heart beat slowly subsided, and Haizhu dropped her fishing net to drag the old turtle to the bow of the boat, and before she had time to change her clothes, she untied the sail and raised it, and turned the bow of the boat to row towards the pier.

The two ships were always separated by a short distance, and they were about to arrive at the dock, because there was a merchant ship unloading on the dock, and Haizhu waited for a while before being caught up by the ship behind.

"Huh? Is it a little girl? God, brother, look at the things on the ship. "A swarthy man was so startled by the things on the sea pearl boat that his eyes were about to fall out.

"Little sister, where did you cast your net, the shrimp and crabs are about to crawl out."

"I went to the sea to fish." If you want to store the boat at the dock, the things on the ship can't be hidden, and Haizhu doesn't plan to hide it, she has two backers, and she is not afraid that someone will have bad intentions.

"To the sea? Seabed? The other party was about to stop talking.

Haizhu nodded, and without waiting for someone to test a word, she took the initiative to explain: "Didn't a ship sink in the eastern sea last year, I was the one who went to the sea to salvage, and today I wanted to try my luck and found it, na, I also fished more than a dozen long knives." ”

The merchant ship docked steadily, Haizhu pushed the boat to the bay, her wooden cart was still on the shore, and there were only six boats left in the bay, including Qi Laosan's.

"Third uncle, here." Haizhu saw Qi Laosan who was shooting ashes and called him to help with things.

The fishing boats behind her were already helping her preach the feat of going to sea to find the wreck, and half of the people on the dock were rushing towards her.

Haizhu smashed the anchor into the crack of the reef, and left the old turtle alone, she asked Qi Laosan to drag the fishing boat to the reef beach and sell the catch in the cabin on the spot.

"First come, first served, big octopus, blue crab, hairy crab, large pincer shrimp, orchid crab, sea shell, conch, abalone, you name it."

"How do you sell crabs?"

"These big blue crabs are thirty wen a catty, and the smaller ones are twenty-five wen." Haizhu found someone to borrow a scale, but she didn't want to bother, so she simply said: "If you can buy all the blue crabs, it will be twenty-five yuan a catty." ”

"Okay, I want it, I want orchid crabs and shrimps."

"I want ten orchid crabs." The owners of other restaurants would let people take all the good things, and they rushed to quote first: "Twenty-five pounds of orchid crabs, pick twenty for me." ”

"I want ten shrimp, the big ones, and the small ones I don't want."

"This octopus monster is clean, don't spit ink, weigh me ten catties."

"I want abalone, weigh twenty."

Shrimp, crab and snail are not better than fish to die when they go out to sea, they can be raised for three or four days if they are well raised, they can continue to sell tomorrow if they can't be sold out tonight, and they can also be loaded on merchant ships and transported inland if they have a way, so these things are more expensive than fresh fish.

Haizhu was so noisy that her ears hurt, and she sold all her things, leaving only a rusty iron pot with a long knife and a water-seeping makeup box on the ship.

"Third uncle, you carry the old turtle to the wooden cart, and we will go back." Haizhu was dressed in wet clothes, carrying the pot and putting it in the car first, she saw Han Ji striding over, and hurriedly beckoned, "I was about to go to you, and you came over." ”

"You're looking for a shipwreck?" Han Ji asked with a straight face.

Seeing that his face was wrong, Haizhu was a little stunned for a while, and asked in a low voice, "Can't find it?" There was nothing important in it, and the books were all soaked. ”

Han Ji endured and endured, but still didn't hold back, and reached out to pat her on the back of the head, "Don't die?" ”

"Well, you know, I'm good at water." Haizhu smiled, "I know it in my heart, and I have a turtle as a companion." Come on, come here, come here, I fished out more than a dozen long knives, all of them are rusty, and they should still be usable. Do you have a barracks to recycle? Can I sell to a blacksmith? ”

Han Ji: ......

The ship with a mast and a building is estimated to be four feet, and the four-zhang high ship sinks and can't see a shadow, how deep is the bottom of the sea? He looked at the smiling girl and bought the scrap knives for two taels of silver and a knife.

"Are you short of money?" He asked.

"There's no shortage." Haizhu sat on the wooden cart with the makeup box, "I'll go back, I'll talk about something tomorrow, it's dark." ”

Oil candles had been lit in the house, and Haizhu took a shower and changed into dry clothes, wiping her hair and entering the house. Half of the gold and silver jewelry was placed on the dining table facing the door, and the gold hairpin and silver hairpin were already dimmed, and they were roasted on the fire, and the black traces were wiped off, and the gold and silver light inside were revealed.

"Get rich, don't cook anymore, let's go out to eat." She said happily.

Chapter 50: Setting up a stall at night

Leaving the second uncle at home alone, Haizhu led the old and the young to the restaurant for dinner. She went to the restaurant where she had eaten when she first came to Yongning last year, and the boss and his buddies no longer recognized her, except that she sold shrimp, crabs and shellfish at the dock in the evening.

Oh, and I know she's a great diver, and she can go down to the bottom of the sea and salvage shipwrecks.

The guy sent a basin of blood clam sour sauce to scoop up the powder, and he glanced at Haizhu, as if to discern whether she had a longer nose and one eye than others.

When the steamed crab was delivered, he said, "This is what I bought from you." ”

"How much do these five crabs cost?" Grandma Qi asked.

"Just eat, don't worry about the money." Haizhu said.

The guy saw what Haizhu meant, smiled, and walked away.

The orchid crab has already cracked open the shell, Haizhu picked up the pointed long scissors to pry open the crab shell, first cut the crab legs and remove the meat, the crab meat is dipped in ginger vinegar sauce, fresh, sweet, sour and spicy, swallowing a bite of crab meat, there is saliva in the mouth.

"How do you make your ginger vinegar? How can it taste better than at home? Grandma Qi muttered, she dipped the tip of the chopsticks in ginger vinegar sauce to taste, I don't know where the vinegar is, I can't tell it, it's better than my own.

Haizhu took a bite of noodles after eating crab legs, The acid in the sour powder soup is pure fruit acid, and the vinegar in the ginger vinegar sauce should be rice vinegar and fruit vinegar, and maybe something else has been added.

Another dish of steamed fish is on the table, Haizhu scoops the crab roe into the powder, mixes well and eats a bowl of noodles before eating the fish, the fish is fresh and the meat is tender and has few spines, and after eating the fish, drink the sour soup, and the mouth is not fishy.

The back kitchen increased the firepower, and the scallop steamed vermicelli and the stir-fried baby octopus were served together, and Haizhu said, "This is much smaller than the octopus I caught." ”

"I went late, I didn't grab it." The shopkeeper brought a plate of vinegared peanuts and said to Haizhu: "If you find anything in the future, you can send it to me, the price can be negotiated, and you will be satisfied." ”

Each restaurant has a fixed fisherman to deliver to the door, but the harvest of going to sea is uncertain, if you are lucky, you can return with a full warehouse, and if you are unlucky, the bilge is not enough. Therefore, the shopkeeper of the restaurant will go to the dock every evening to wait, and when he encounters good goods, he will grab them, and when the kitchen has stock, he will only select the good ones when the fishermen deliver them to their doors.

And his promise to Haizhu is that as long as she sends it, he will buy it all.

"I don't catch good goods every day, anyway, you wait at the dock every day, and it's convenient to see me and take a look." Haizhu refused, mainly because she had a lot of income today, and she wanted to buy a shop, if she bought a shop, the shrimp and crabs she caught in the sea would not be sold to others.

"Uncle, do you make your own ginger vinegar? Is it a secret ingredient? She asked.

"Yes, it's a secret recipe, and the one who came to me to eat is the flavor of the picture." The shopkeeper left vinegar peanuts and said, "I will take care of the business more in the future." ”

The rest of the dishes Haizhu didn't taste good, so after the meal, I packed a bowl of blood clam sour juice powder and went home after checkout.

"One tael of silver is enough to buy forty or fifty catties of rice for a meal." Grandma Qi felt distressed about the broken silver handed out, and shouted at the restaurant to grab money, "It's all from the sea, next time we want to eat it, we will make it ourselves at home." ”

"Leeks and oysters don't cost money, and pancakes don't sell for two pennies each. According to what you said, what kind of cake to buy, pry a few oysters yourself, cut a few leeks and stir-fry them casually, how can you spend money to buy them. Haizhu complained, "I take Zhang San's money, Li Si collects my money, and it becomes a business to buy and sell." ”

"There are also lanterns, there are many lanterns hanging on the roof, there are also on the wall, there are oil candles on the table, and the lamp oil is also bought for money, which is added to the vegetable money, which is definitely more expensive than shrimp and crabs fished directly from the sea." Dongzhu said, "Sister, am I right? ”

"That's right." These words reminded Haizhu that if she opened a restaurant, it was not as simple as cooking, but also about discretion.

When he got home, Grandma Qi went to the kitchen to boil the bath water, Qi Laosan went to take care of his second brother to eat, and Fengping took Chaoping to run in the yard.

Haizhu lit an oil candle in the house to string copper plates and weigh silver, a thousand copper plates are consistent, she twisted the copper plates so that her fingertips hurt, and when the people in the family have finished bathing one after another, this is the end of the two pieces of money. There are also two taels or four coins of broken silver, which are all income from selling shrimp, crabs, shellfish and octopus.

"Haizhu, it's time for you to take a bath." Qi Laosan knocked on the door.

"Okay, let's go." Haizhu put the broken silver and copper plate into the box, and opened the door to see that he had not left.

"Half of today's income, two hundred and seventy-three wen."

Haizhu took it, poured the copper plate on the table, returned the cloth bag to him, and asked, "Is the fish still easy to sell?" ”

"It's okay, I'll bring it back and sell it after I save half a bucket, although it's small, but it's energetic and fresh."

Haizhu gave him an idea, let him carry the burden along the alley to sell, in the middle of the morning and half in the afternoon, there are no fishing boats back, there are few fish on the street, and those who want to buy fish will come out to see.

"If you go to the alleys where the rich live to sell, you don't have to go to the stone houses, because everyone who lives in the stone houses has fishing boats, and there is no shortage of fish." She pointed.